CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire lawmakers are holding a hearing on a renewed push to repeal the death penalty.

So many speakers and supporters of the bill packed the hearing room at the Legislative Office Building that the event was moved to Representatives Hall in the Statehouse.

Rep. Renny Cushing, lead sponsor whose father was murdered, stressed repeal — if passed — would not affect the state's only death row convict.

Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan said she would support a repeal bill if it doesn't upset the death sentence of Michael Addison — sentenced to die for the 2006 shooting death of Manchester police officer Michael Briggs.

Rep. Jeanine Notter, a Merrimack Republican who sponsored a bill that last year expanded the death penalty to home invasions, says she opposes the repeal.